Avanti Restaurant of Distinction

Local cuisine and our knowledge of Italian desserts have grown over the past 40 years thanks in part to Avanti, which opened in 1974. The owner is likely to stop by your table to chat about what you ordered or to boast about the interior, all black-and-white offset by blood red walls and zebra-striped fabrics. […]

Awesome Cookie Company

With a name like Awesome Cookie Company, you’d expect nothing short of, well, awesome from a cookie. Luckily, the cookies deliver on the name, even though there are only two flavors available. The most popular option, the cranberry oatmeal, kind of tastes like a really fancy enlarged Cookie Crisp, which is baffling because it isn’t […]

AZ BBQ Company

Mark Nichols thinks about flavor. The chef and pitmaster opened Arizona BBQ Company with his wife, Colette, in Gilbert in 2017. Mark has a classical culinary training from Le Cordon Bleu. Nichols applies his training to the process of cooking meat. The result is that European technique and American cuisine merge.

AZ Kabob House

The interior of AZ Kabob House is cheerful but not lavish, and the menu includes less traditional fare, like Greek salads and hummus, but their Persian specialties, like tender, ground beef kubideh kabobs served over saffron rice; homemade doogh, a salted mint and yogurt drink; and gormeh sabzi, a lamb and herb stew, are some […]